Thursday, October 30, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
What to do???
It is amazing the amount of time in a day when you are not training or recovering from training for a majority part of your day.
Today I got up had breakfast. Then I went outside and had my coffee while reading my book. Today was a very nice day and the dogs enjoyed the sun and lounging outside. After this leisure time I went for an hour easy run, as recovery from my 11mile run yesterday.
Ate a nice panini for lunch, while I was baking the pumpkin seeds in the oven.
Then off to the grocery store, for the one million time this week. Came home chopped vegetables for my "homemade" marinara sauce. Then made and cooked meatballs for our meatball sandwich for dinner tonight. I have never had a meatball sandwich so dinner tonight should be very interesting. Both of these items came from the ABS diet book and they sounded good. So, we will try it.
After preparing our dinner, I decided to clean the whole kitchen. Then vacuum the whole house and then cleaned the shower.
While cleaning I decided that homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies sounded good. So, I began gathering the ingredients for the yummy cookies. After gathering, I had to tape Pedro's ankle, since he is going to try and play pickup basketball tonight. Ok, back to the cookies. I made the cookie "dough" and have it refrigerated so we can eat them freshly out of the oven after dinner. I did eat quite a bit of the dough..mmmm.
Now a short nap before I get ready for basketball practice, then come home.... warm all the food for dinner. Watch tv and make the cookies for dessert :)
Today I got up had breakfast. Then I went outside and had my coffee while reading my book. Today was a very nice day and the dogs enjoyed the sun and lounging outside. After this leisure time I went for an hour easy run, as recovery from my 11mile run yesterday.
Ate a nice panini for lunch, while I was baking the pumpkin seeds in the oven.
Then off to the grocery store, for the one million time this week. Came home chopped vegetables for my "homemade" marinara sauce. Then made and cooked meatballs for our meatball sandwich for dinner tonight. I have never had a meatball sandwich so dinner tonight should be very interesting. Both of these items came from the ABS diet book and they sounded good. So, we will try it.
After preparing our dinner, I decided to clean the whole kitchen. Then vacuum the whole house and then cleaned the shower.
While cleaning I decided that homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies sounded good. So, I began gathering the ingredients for the yummy cookies. After gathering, I had to tape Pedro's ankle, since he is going to try and play pickup basketball tonight. Ok, back to the cookies. I made the cookie "dough" and have it refrigerated so we can eat them freshly out of the oven after dinner. I did eat quite a bit of the dough..mmmm.
Now a short nap before I get ready for basketball practice, then come home.... warm all the food for dinner. Watch tv and make the cookies for dessert :)
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Pig Roast!
Sunday we had about 20 people over for a pig roast. Pedro spent the better half of Saturday picking up the pig from a farm and then marinating the pig. Sunday he woke up around 630 to begin the roasting. He created a "rotisserie" and it worked really well. His friend and him sat at the roaster for nearly 8 hours rotating the piggy.
All in all the party went very well. We worry with so many people at our house because we don't have a lot of room. We were blessed with some warm weather so we didn't have to be inside the whole time.
Below are the pictures from the roast:
All in all the party went very well. We worry with so many people at our house because we don't have a lot of room. We were blessed with some warm weather so we didn't have to be inside the whole time.
Below are the pictures from the roast:
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Running...
Running is currently my sport of choice. Well, choice isn't exactly the word, but sport "in training". I am hoping to improve my pace in my aerobic zones. Sounds fun right??
Funny thing about my running is that I am now going to be the Running Club Coach for the new gym near the house. Yeah, funny because can you be a RUN coach if your RUN looks more like a WALK? Maybe I should call it the Walking Club? When the gym opens, in about a month maybe I will be a bit faster. If not then I will have to recruit what appear to be moderate speed walkers. Not speed walkers, since they are probably way faster!
The benefit of this new coaching gig, is not financial. It is the benefit of having a free gym membership to, what appears to be, an amazing gym. I will also be able to take masters swimming. Yes, I plan on taking masters to hopefully teach me to swim better. The last benefit will be to have a few group runs, though not as fun as a group run would be since I have to do the planning etc.
Then starting in January I will be the Tri Coach for the gym. Again, funny since I am looking for my own coach. But this is mainly for people that want to learn about tri's. Info about types of training, distances etc. Again, something that I have to plan and figure out what to coach.
As most people know I am on the computer researching training, tri's and stalking some really good athletes, so I'm pretty sure I can help people feel better about racing and learning what to do.
A last funny note, Pedro went to the store again. This time with a list. Amazingly, he returned with everything on the list (which is better than myself, I always forget something) and even bought the last few things which I forgot to put on the list! Maybe more shopping for him, though I will say I was kind of sad that he didn't get any good treats, I was kind of hoping for some surprise item I wouldn't buy.
Funny thing about my running is that I am now going to be the Running Club Coach for the new gym near the house. Yeah, funny because can you be a RUN coach if your RUN looks more like a WALK? Maybe I should call it the Walking Club? When the gym opens, in about a month maybe I will be a bit faster. If not then I will have to recruit what appear to be moderate speed walkers. Not speed walkers, since they are probably way faster!
The benefit of this new coaching gig, is not financial. It is the benefit of having a free gym membership to, what appears to be, an amazing gym. I will also be able to take masters swimming. Yes, I plan on taking masters to hopefully teach me to swim better. The last benefit will be to have a few group runs, though not as fun as a group run would be since I have to do the planning etc.
Then starting in January I will be the Tri Coach for the gym. Again, funny since I am looking for my own coach. But this is mainly for people that want to learn about tri's. Info about types of training, distances etc. Again, something that I have to plan and figure out what to coach.
As most people know I am on the computer researching training, tri's and stalking some really good athletes, so I'm pretty sure I can help people feel better about racing and learning what to do.
A last funny note, Pedro went to the store again. This time with a list. Amazingly, he returned with everything on the list (which is better than myself, I always forget something) and even bought the last few things which I forgot to put on the list! Maybe more shopping for him, though I will say I was kind of sad that he didn't get any good treats, I was kind of hoping for some surprise item I wouldn't buy.
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